And that’s more or less what happens next, after Mercury re-enters Capricorn on the 13th. Now, you can rebalance your checkbooks, resubmit your tax return, publish the updated draft of your will, consolidate your loan, deposit funds into your investment account, figure out who owes what, and come to some sort of agreement about who’s responsible for which parts of a shared venture.
The bigger news is that on the 20th, the Sun and Pluto both enter Aquarius, your 9th house of long journeys, education, and spirituality. Over the next two decades, Pluto will completely tear down and reconstruct what you think you know about the world, and also how you move through it. That includes how you travel, how you think about tourism, and how you grapple with your place in the international order. For now, though, you can start by honoring any impulses that are arising to investigate things more deeply or change your usual approach. This could be something as drastic as renouncing air travel to help curb emissions, or something more subtle, like doing more research before you book to ensure you’re not giving money to organizations you think are unethical. With Pluto, there’s always a deeper layer to explore. You don’t have to get to the bottom of it just yet—right now is for scratching the surface.
Cancer Rising
Whether you were revisiting an important conversation, renegotiating an agreement, or trying to arrive to a mutual decision on where to travel together next year, at least one of your significant others needed a little more of your attention last month. Fortunately, the effort you put in will pay off in January as things settle into a more normal flow again between the two of you. As a stellium of planets march through Capricorn, your 7th house of others, you, too, will feel the purposeful momentum building in your relationships. If it’s not a romantic other, this could also involve a platonic life partner, your travel accomplice, your work wife or husband, or your clients.
The Capricorn New Moon on the 11th brings you to a significant reset where all of this is concerned. This is an annual event, to be clear, so you can think of this as a chance to identify your 2024 relationship goals and move accordingly. Usually, that might look like committing to visiting a loved one more regularly, or carving out weekends away with the sole purpose of bonding. However, this particular new moon will be squaring the lunar nodes, which means it might advance the plot for you a little more dramatically. Is it destiny? Maybe, maybe not, but consider that the new partner-oriented beginnings taking form at the moment could have ripple effects on virtually every other aspect of your life, especially your career and where you live.
The month culminates in a Leo Full Moon on the 25th, which brings things to a head in your financial life and raises all sorts of new questions about who you’re involved with, who you depend on, who depends on you, and how those dynamics serve to detract from or support your hopes and dreams. This full moon may illuminate codependent dynamics that you weren’t able to see before—or it might tempt you with a Faustian bargain of some kind. Stay true to your core values no matter what, but don’t be afraid to ask the difficult questions. And, importantly, don’t worry if your travel calendar is light this month—it’ll give you a chance to focus on all of the above.